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From the people who gave us Masters Of The Universe, Matchbox and Barbie, we’d have surely had the game by the nuts if we’d been using one of these:
http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Mattel/HorseRace.htm
Mike
I think I saw Gingertipster with one of them at Goodwood earlier this year, wondered what it was.
I lost mine down the back of the couch. It was great. 32 buttons, each with a racecard number. When the TV racing was on, you just pointed it and pressed the button and your selection zoomed to the front.
Easy money.
That Mattel junk is hopeless for today’s Naylorized markets.
It can’t hold a candle to the smart-money detectometer. I never leave home without one.
http://online.sfsu.edu/hl/g.HC.detectOmeter.jpeg
I think I saw Gingertipster with one of them at Goodwood earlier this year, wondered what it was.
My secret is exposed!
Value Is EverythingWhat about the Pencliff Horse Racing Computer
http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-pencliff-race-computer-horse-39915601
which I seem to remember being advertised in the Exchange & Mart back in the seventies.
Harvard Concentric Selector – Circa 1973
Some cutting edge solutions here.
The observant amongst you may say "that’s just a pocket calculator with a biro attached, a couple of cardboard rulers with pictures on them, and one of those circular plastic slide rules I had at school".
But you’d be very, very wrong.
They’re so much more than that.
Mike
today’s
Naylorized
markets.
What is this??
Mike
Markets that Pat NAYLOR rules with a rod of iron.
From the people who gave us Masters Of The Universe, Matchbox and Barbie, we’d have surely had the game by the nuts if we’d been using one of these:
http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Mattel/HorseRace.htm
Mike
I think my father had that one back in the day and told me it was a Horse Racing
Anal
yser because you rammed it up the jockey’s rectum after the race.
Thanks for the good crack. Time for me to move on. Be lucky.
Surely this one takes the biscuit. It’s based on a 78rpm record for Christ’s sake.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Gramphone-rec … 33996a72da
Call Boy or Brown Jack? Ginger, where’s the value?
Thanks for the good crack. Time for me to move on. Be lucky.
today’s
Naylorized
markets.
What is this??
Mike
Markets that Pat NAYLOR rules with a rod of iron.
Absolutely none the wiser I’m afraid. Although I’m sure that’s probably the idea…
Mike
Mornington Crescent!
ROFL!
gc
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
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